Shade, curtain, and drapery holder



NOV. 6, 1934. GENDICH 1,980,050

SHADE, CURTAIN, AND DRAPERY HOLDER Filed Feb. 5, 1954 9 MW) 1", HIM

Michael fiendic Patented Nov. 6, 1934 UNITED STATES FATENT; QFFEE 1Claim.

This invention relates to shade, curtain and drapery holders and has forthe primary object the provision of a device of the above statedcharacter which may be readily adjusted to window frames of differentsizes and may be secured thereto without the use of nails, screws andlike fasteners and may be quickly removed from the window frame whendesired.

With these and other objects in view this invention consists in certainnovel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts tobe hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

For a complete understanding of my invention, reference is to be had tothe following description and accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 isa front elevation illustrating a holder constructed in accordance withmy invention and showing the same applied to a flange portion of awindow frame.

Figure 2 is a sectional View taken on the line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a sectional View taken on the line 33 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a sectional View taken on the line 4-4 of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a perspective view illustrating a modified form of theplates of my invention.

Referring in detail to the drawing, the numerals 1 and 2 indicate platesforming part of the holder and each plate has formed on one edge aflange 3 equipped with tongues 4 that parallel the plates. The plates 1and 2 engage with the front face of a window frame 5 while the flanges 3engage the side edges of the frame with the tongues 4 in engagement withthe rear face of the frame. The plates are adjustably connected by a bar6 whereby the flanges of said plates may be drawn tightly against theside edges of the frame.

Pairs of tongues 7 are struck up from the plates and the tongues of eachpair extend in the direction of each other and converge to form socketelements to removably receive the ends of curtain and drapery rods 8,the latter being of the telescopic type. The plates 1 and 2 also havestruck therefrom tongues 9 arranged at right angles to said plates andone tongue is provided with an aperture while the other tongue isprovided with a notch to receive the pintles of a shade roller.

The plate 1 is ofi'set, as shown at 10, to form a groove or channelwhich at one end opens outwardly through the front face of the plate, asshown at 11, to receive one end of the rod 6. Said 55 end of the rod isequipped with an angularly related head 12 adapted to enter any one of aseries of keyhole slots 13 formed in the offset 10 for the purpose ofadjustably connecting the rod 6 to the plate 1. The plate 2 is offset toprovide spaced sleeves 14 which receive the screw threaded end of therod 6. The screw threaded end of the rod has turned thereon a nut 15engageable with one of the sleeves 14. The rod 6 adjacent the screwthreaded portion and lying between the sleeves 14 is flattened, as shownat 16, to prevent turning of the rod in the sleeves by said flattenedportion engaging with the plate 2.

As shown in Figure 5, instead of having the sockets formed in the platesthey may have struck therefrom substantially L-shaped tongues 17 toengage with curtain and drapery rods which are designed to receive suchtongues.

If desired, the rod 6 may be squared in cross section to prevent turninginstead of employing the flattened portion 16.

Having described the invention, I claim:

A holder comprising a pair of plates to engage with a window frame,flanges on said plates to engage the side edges of the window frame,means for securing to said plates curtain and drapery rods, means forconnecting a shade roller to said plates, one of said plates havingoffsets to form spaced sleeves, a rod having a screw threaded portionreceived in said sleeves and provided with means to contact with thelast-named plate to prevent rotation of the rod, a nut threaded to therod and engaging one of the sleeves, said other plate having an offsetto form a channel opening outwardly through the outer face of said lastplate to receive the other end of'said rod, said last-named offsethaving a series of keyhole slots communicative with the channel, a headformed on the last-named end of the rod and received in any one of saidkeyhole slots.

MICHAEL GENDICH.

